Recent content by 6X6WES

well maybe 25 or so i took my bronco off the road then i had bought it a couple years out of high school . drove it and broke it several times well many times for ten years or so . started a race truck build on it then got bite by the water bought and fixed up jet skis, boats, ect.. even moved...

thanks ,yea pretty nice year round here in eastern NC. been waiting 30 years to build that bronco shes coming together.

used my wrecker for the first time in a while worked perfect put this 69 bronco body on the frame by myself in my driveway.

wow everyone is so quick to correct me its like no one read my orig post that said I knew the difference between 7k and 10k by the number of pleats in the boot and that my question was can you tell the difference between the 10k and 12k from the outside IM SORRY I said ton instead of thousand my...

ok,ok, I don't know why I kept saying ton instead of thousand :cookoo:

thanks but I saw the pictures at kascar the 12 tons have a triangle like you said but the points are flat the other two are round . thanks guys

you can straighten alum but it is tricky we work on some postal trucks and they are built the same. use a oxy acetylene troch but use the gas only NO OXYGEN that is the right temp for alum. heat the affected area and hit with your hammer and back up with the dollys 3 or 4 times heat again and...

I know how to tell the difference between the first original old I think they are 7 ton with the four pleats on the boot and the ten ton with multiple pleats without looking I'm thinking about 8 pleats on those. and then the 12.5 ton units which need the bigger gear is there a way to tell the 10...

No fluids leaking probably means it is out of fluid yea dog went on first ride and has pretty much claimed the middle. been twisting wrenches for a long while now before I even started it I checked all the fluids, swaping them out now. gonna look into 12k shafts and redo the brakes they been...

thanks guys hanging around to learn the ins and outs of these trucks. [thumbzup]

think I got pretty lucky looks like it sat for a while but looks kept up. batt 09 hawkers trying to bring them back now. gp had jumped it and I guess they put some fresh fuel in there I was gonna drain the tank but its running great added some cleaner and drove it to shake it down. everything...

we used to send a rookie mech to the parts counter for muffler bearings or blinker fluid and the parts man would send him back to measure the bearings or see what color the fluid was some would go back 2 or three times before he figured it out. than the whole shop would be waiting on him:burn:

read whole thread as well.very interesting . waiting on my (off road use) m998 won on 3-28, paper work is all done except waiting on euc i wasn't planning on trying to tag. and sounds like even if they are they may not be permanently tagged . i got 2600 acres to play on in the back yard not mine...

ill get some pics . but i gotta tear a fuel system down on a wrecker today. and cut some grass. thanks wes